Salon Series, the Parrish Art Museum’s classical music program featuring world-class artists performing in an intimate, casual setting, presents a new roster of diverse music and musicians on Fridays at 6 PM, including the piano/violin duo of Niccolò Ronchi and Anastasiia Mazurok on October 7, pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner on October 14, and pianist Yoonie Han on October 28.
The series kicks off with the program Music That Made Us, featuring Ronchi and Mazurok who will perform works by César Franck, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Claude Debussy, among others. Ronchi has won 51 first prizes at national and international piano competitions, including the International Chopin Piano Competition in Rome in 2010. That catapulted him onto the international concert stage with more than 200 solo performances at venues in Italy (Teatro la Fenice, Auditorium Parco della Musica, and Sala Verdi), Germany, France, Spain, England, the U.S., Japan, China, Russia, and Australia. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the late 20th century, with a particular sensitivity for music of Romantic period and 20th century Russian repertoire. A frequent collaborator with contemporary composers, he recently debuted at the Monfalcone Municipal Theatre with the opera “Palinodia Terza” by Riccardo Fabris. Ronchi, who earned the Diploma at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Mazurok is an award-winning violinist, D’Addario artist and ambassador, GEWA official artist, and TEDx speaker. A native of Saint Petersburg, Russia, she won top prizes at The Petersburgian Spring International Competition of the Arts and Georgy Sviridov International competition. Mazurok gave her concerto debut at 13 and has performed extensively throughout Russia, the U.S., France, and Austria. As a recipient of the Emerging Artists Foundation award, she was a soloist at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Mazurok graduated with honors from the Rimsky Korsakov Musical College, received a bachelor’s degree as a Garrigues award winner from Boyer College of Music, and a master’s from The Juilliard School as the Rockefeller Foundation and Irene Diamond fellow. She has performed within the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg and collaborated in masterclasses with musicians including Qian Zhou, Sergey Kravchenko, Takashi Shimizu, and Aaron Rosand. She performed with Anne-Sophie Mutter at Boston Symphony Hall and multi-Grammy award winner Lambert Orkis.
The concerts will be held in the Lichtenstein Theater. Tickets are $25 or $15 for members, students, and children. Advance ticket purchase with pre-event registration is recommended. Visit parrishart.org.